Sweet! - rambling Heidegger-thread time (I accidentally wrote way too much stuff in response to this last night, but F it.)
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And why did heid dislike the notion of the unconscious when authenticity almost resembles jungian individuation?
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As for his disdain for psychoanalysis, there may be a few reasons. I think he found the whole enterprise superfluous. Also, he found Freud (idk about Jung) to be overly reductionistic. Heid is similar to D&G in that the present psyche/experience cannot be reduced to its isolated
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approximate cause (e.g. the Wolfman is not to be equated with past psychological trauma). Also, Heid probably saw psychoanalysis as to prone to Cartesian demarcation. The psyche is cleaved away from its context (environmental, social, etc) & suspended in isolation over the world
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Even if one may say that the demarcations aren't ontological or literal, he'd probably say their division of categories are also too absolute in terms of functionality as well as too static - I really don't know the extent to which this would hit Jung though
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Oh I see, it's so clear now that like D and G he was warding off all the previous biases of western phil till that point, in western science he also found this demarcation and reification of human civilization above the space of nature (ALA agamben's work on heid)
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Ye son. Heid is more extreme about it but that's what makes D&G interesting tho. Instead of out-righting casting social/scientific/psychological preasuppositions or reifications to the wind (á la Heid), they pick them up as tools for occasional use.
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I think determining whether or not one succumbs to dandyism rather than an authentic transfiguration of character is not so easily done from the outside. There are probably conspicuous signs that would indicate inauthenticity:e.g. general egoism, utilitarian/means-to-end thinking
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A litmus test for "genuine" authenticity is this [internal (bad word tho)] feeling of alienness or uncanniness. It's this extra-ordinary sensation of being tugged out of the isolated ego & the utilitarian thinking inculcated therein
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Aaaaaa very Zen like of heidy



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Ye! but he also critiqued eastern mysticism from a stylistic standpoint in that they over-emphasize the centrality of self. He took the charge of philosophical anthropology seriously & thats why his later works decenter the human to an extent & focus on "things" & their relations
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Basically without the constant reminder of radical contextualization, Heid thought that the bifurcated utilitarian frame of mind would creep back into any project that easily lends itself to subjectivist interpretation.
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He's kind of right I hate to say it, look at how zen was taken up by the corporatocracy as a self help tool for alienated worker bees.
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yes, or it engenders that "everyone's their own god" new age garb
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